FalconStor Software, the provider of fully Open(TM) data protection solutions,
announced that healthcare organizations worldwide are deploying FalconStor's data protection solutions for high availability and disaster recovery of business-critical applications that must comply with data security, privacy and retention policies.
"FalconStor has created an easy and flexible way for healthcare institutions to protect and manage their data, introducing greater efficiency and the promise of uninterrupted access to critical applications," Wendy Petty, VP North American sales at FalconStor said. "Beyond the cost savings, business process improvements and regulatory compliance enabled by FalconStor's data protection solutions, our products help these organizations focus on their primary mission of delivering quality healthcare services instead of worrying about whether or not patient data is secure."
Healthcare customers are discovering that by implementing FalconStor's data protection solutions effectively, they are cutting the time of managing their data in half compared to previous solutions they have used.
"As we plan our move to all-electronic medical records, we have made a more comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plan a priority for the organization to ensure 99 percent availability," James Andrassy, IT manager of Gastroenterology Associates of Cleveland, a private medical practice said. "The DiskSafe(TM) technology available through FalconStor(R) CDP is just amazing -- no other solution has allowed me to rebuild a 500 gigabyte partition in as little as 15 minutes and have the server up and running."
Dan Higley, information systems engineer, Florida Blood Services said: "We implemented FalconStor(R) CDP to replicate data to that site and make it accessible for quick and easy restores; it ensures that important information within our blood donor information system, Progesa, is protected in the event of a hurricane or other disaster."
Chris Mohr, network analyst, PinnacleHealth, a non-profit, regional system said: "The time it took us to go live with FalconStor(R) VTL with integrated deduplication was like flipping a switch. The FalconStor appliances are an all-in-one solution that cuts tape usage in half, reduces data center costs and helps reduce restore time from hours to minutes."
"FalconStor VTL technology integrated easily and seamlessly into our existing infrastructure, and its deduplication capabilities gave us the ability to address all of our business continuity issues. Our recovery time objective (RTO) lowered from several days to less than one day, and we are compliant with health industry guidelines, giving us complete confidence in our deployment and reducing our administrative workloads," said Chris Watkis, IT director, Grey Healthcare Group (GHG), which specializes in advertising, education and interactive marketing for the medical and pharmaceutical industry.
FalconStor delivers complete data protection to support millions of electronic medical records (EMRs). FalconStor's technology has been deployed in customer data centers that include both Microsoft and VMware environments, eliminating the need for tape and providing faster restore times. This is critical for IT managers who need instant availability of financial and healthcare applications.
FalconStor Japan recently
entered into a business partnership with Fujitsu Software Technologies (FST), whereby FST will resell FalconStor's backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions in the Japanese market and provide consulting services, system deployment and post-sales support to customers.
Edited by
Alice Straight
